Balo language

Balo
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	2,200 (2000)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields Southwest Balo; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Alunfa;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bqo
Glottolog	balo1264[2]

Balo is a Grassfields language of Cameroon. Alunfa is distinct and perhaps should be considered a different language.

Balo and Alunfa are poorly documented and for a time had been considered Tivoid languages.

References

↑ Balo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Balo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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